Would you care if your CCW status was published?

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Yeah, actually. I will concede that if the law provides for the information to be public, then all things being equal, I don't have a legal ground to object, but frankly, it defeats the purpose of "concealed." The fewer people who know, the better. I grant that there are other risks (criminal shopping list, etc.), but mostly, in my mind, it simply eliminates another layer of concealment.
 
I think that's gonna vary with the person. You don't care; I don't care. But, I've read that after the Virginia debacle, one CHL woman was discovered by a hostile ex-husband. So, in the words of the gun-control folks, "If it will just save one life" to not publish, don't publish.

Art
 
I don't give a hoot about what my friends know, but if my name was on a public list I would worry about someone I didn't know that thought I looked like an easy mark - being elderly and all. If some anti-gun editor published my name he and I would have some terse words. :cuss:

Notice that these list publishing newspapers always pick on concealed weapons license holders, and nothing else. :banghead:
 
I don't want my name on a gun owners list for the press, the public and businesses to access.
 
If I had my choice certainly not. If it does get published, I care not. The effect would probably be better awareness if my name made the fish wrapper.
 
Among the reasons the Roanoke paper cited for publishing the list:

"illustrating how the Freedom of Information Act works"

Plenty of ways to do that with lots of other information.

"The public should be able to monitor how well various jurisdictions screen concealed carry applicants"

Hrm, well I'm not so sure this isn't partially valid. Anything done with public funds should be able to be reviewed by the public. They should be reviewing standards and procedures, though, instead of the relatively weak reporting of publishing information that's already available to the public. Great investigative journalism there!

Supposedly, the people who get a CCW that requires either an extensive background check and/or CCW/defensive training have passed a higher standard than those who have either failed or chosen not to pursue the matter. It seems more useful to me, if the paper truly wanted to provide a public service, to publish the list of people who failed the background check because of criminal history (i.e. known criminals seeking weapons). Not that I agree with that necessarily either, but the public service message was bogus, IMO.

No, I would not want my personal address published in a list of associated CPL holders for Washington state.

jm
 
In Michigan, it is deemed confidential.

If they someday published the list, I would still keep my MCPL.
 
Absolutely, I would be livid if some bum wipe published my private information. If that happened I would probably do something along the lines of this.

Find out where this idiot lived and find out when he wasn't home. Then see if there is a pattern. Record that in writing and then print up some cards of this moron and the times he isn't home. Then distribute the name and address as well as times this idgit isn't home in the worst possible neighborhood in the state. Then let him know anonymously what has been done.

Let him know how everyone else feels now.
 
We already are on some sort of list or another. Smith and Wesson already has made attempts in the past to obtain personal records of those purchasing their guns from dealers in order to sell their addresses to potential advertisers. When a police officer pulls a citizen over in a traffic stop, their database shows they he/she is a ccw holder or not. So lastly what else can we be afraid of? Is our use of the second ammendment something we should be ashamed of? Do we feel we need to hide our permits and defensive means? I don't and neither should anyone else.
 
I wholeheartedly agree with Husker1911 and plexreticle .
It's my business. My friends don't need to know, my co-workers don't need to know and my family, other than my wife, doesn't need to know. If I had children I would probably let them know.

My wife is the only person who knows, period!

My $0.02 worth.
 
Isn't that the entire idea of CCW? The safety is in the goblin not knowing.

Too bad we ordinary citizens don't have the where with all to be able to obtain public info on those who publish these names and addresses. The public has a right to know, don't we?
 
I live in Virginia and mine name and address was published and I do not like it. This situation should be changed by our state government.
 
I wouldn't care. I don't see the real harm in it. People don't seem to realize how much about you really is public information. Ever see the foreclosure listings in the paper? That looks much more embarassing to me than if my CCW status is printed. Maybe they should print the names of all of those that don't have a CCW? The criminals would know who to target and who not to then.
 
Personally, I wouldn't care if my carry status was known. I'd care plenty if they published personal information such as my address or phone number though. What I do care about is the violation of privacy in publishing CCW status. While I don't care if they publish mine, I do care that a lot of other folks don't want their status known.
 
If I want anyone to know I will be the one to tell them, and I've told several friends. Publishing publicly you are a gun owner, and where you live, just let the real crooks of the world know where to come and steal your guns.
 
Slowly and over time more people have grown to accept the idea that it is acceptable for private records of various types to be made public. Evan bought and sold in the marketplace.

I do not want my hunting permit, CCW permit, medical records, the logs of my phone calls, what medicines I may buy online, or what sites I visit online being public. It's no ones buisness but mine. And if a website,magazine publisher, etc. sells my info to another comapny I oughta get a cut if I can't stop it.

Identity theft has become a whole new area of crime.

It's also made it possible for cops to infringe on rights a whole lot easier.

Employers can nowdays hire an outfit to search all public records of prospective employees private lifes. Ever been arrested? DWI? Own a gun? Sent a letter to the editor of a newspaper that was published? etc.

Yeah, it's not ok with me if my personal info is public.

tipoc
 
I don't have a CCW, but if I did, I most certainly WOULD care if it were published.

That is invading my privacy just as sure as posting my income, debts, "personal" habits, or anything else about me. I understand that it is a matter of "public record", and if someone wanted to know if I held a CCW, let them look for me specifically. Publishing that info would be just like me standing on the roof of my house with a megaphone holler out that I have one, although I'm sure there would be less LEO intervention with the newspaper publishing.:D
 
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